Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
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The first months of 2014 brought news of Metro art and tours, murals not seen to the general public in decades, an exhibit that has some cholo graffiti scare the locals, and Big Horn sheep have a personal crusade to bring awareness in the Sierra Nevadas.
Look past the public art movement created by Los Angeles murals in the last 30 years and you will find a structure of civic policy that combatively drove the city's visual identity.
Is the painting on a wall at Third and Main downtown, which had a beer logo prominent for a week, a mural, an ad, or a sign?
Only a few months after the passing of an ordinance designed to get murals out under commercial signage, some new works are branding product.
The micro-public art project, utilizing LADOT traffic signal cabinets, first began along the First Street Corridor in Boyle Heights.
We touched based with the French artist to discuss his works and why he has L.A. on his mind.
A new exhibition in Pasadena surveys the career of Alfredo Ramos MartÃnez, who has been cited as the father of Mexican modernism.
December ended with over 20,000 Angelenos gathering in Grand Park for a New Year's Eve celebration, helping end a busy month -- and year -- for public art in L.A.
As Executive Director of the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles, Rojas-Williams guided artists, each with conflicting definitions of murals, through the muck of a developing ordinance.
The death of Joseph Gatto made a poignant agony in the year that resolved art being banned from the walls of the city.
Since the initial introduction of the term "street art" in 1985, there have been hundreds of publications that address this art form, from picture books to academic accounts. The following books should make a welcome addition to any street art aficiona...
With the announcement that murals will be allowed on private homes in some city neighborhoods, this month's monthly wrap leads into a holiday season that brings muralists tidings of news joy.